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Dean, Bashford
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New York, N.Y., 28 October 1867; d. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 6, 1928)
ichthyology.
In early childhood Dean showed keen interest in two fields—natural history and ancient armor—in which he excelled equally.
His interests were encouraged by his lawyer father, William Dean; by his mother, Emma Frances Bashford; and by their distinguished friends, who enabled the boy to enter the College of the City of New York at the age of fourteen.
Dean taught natural history at the college from his graduation in 1886 to 1891, while working for his Ph.D. (1890) at Columbia University, where he became the protégé of John Strong Newberry and heir to his vast collections of Devonian fishes.
Bashford dean biography of william
In 1889 Dean studied oyster culture for the U.S. Fish Commission. In 1890, as the first director of the summer school of biology at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, he helped establish a major center of biological research. He married Alice Dyckman in 1893.
In 1891 Dean began teachi